different between tosher vs tocher

English

Etymology 1

From 19th-century British thieves' cant tosh (“copper; items made of copper”) + -er (“one who uses or acquires”).

Noun

tosher (plural toshers)

1. (historical, cant) A thief who steals the copper siding from the bottoms of vessels, particularly in or along the Thames.
   • 1859, J.C. Hotten, A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words used at the present day, preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language, with glossaries of two secret languages, by a London antiquary

     Toshers, men who steal copper from ships' bottoms in the Thames.

2. (chiefly historical) A scavenger of valuables lost in the sewers, particularly those of London during the Victorian Age.
   • 1851, H. Mayhew, London labour and the London poor, II. 150/2

     The sewer-hunters were formerly, and indeed are still, called by the name of ‘Toshers’, the articles which they pick up in the course of their wanderings along shore being known among themselves by the general term ‘tosh’, a word more particularly applied by them to anything made of copper.

Derived terms

• toshing

Etymology 2

See tosh.

Adjective

tosher

1. comparative form of tosh: more tosh

Anagrams

• Rothes, Stoehr, hetros, hoster, others, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes

English

Etymology

From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. A dowry.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 121:

     And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.

Verb

tocher (third-person singular simple present tochers, present participle tochering, simple past and past participle tochered)

1. (transitive) To supply with a dowry.

Anagrams

• Hector, Troche, hector, orchet, rochet, rotche, troche

Scots

Etymology

From Middle Irish tochar ( > Scottish Gaelic tochradh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tox?r/

Noun

tocher (plural tochers)

1. dowry; trousseau
   • 1791, Robert Burns, ‘My Tocher's the Jewel’:

     Your proffer o' luve's an airle-penny, / My tocher's the bargain ye wad buy […].